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"We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube's policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity."

Thanks Peter. That's going to come in handy this year as WRDSB opens Youtube in limited access.

Taking better photos has more to do with attitude than technique, knowing a few tricks can only help... Photonhead offers a blend of photographic concepts and tips for the digital era. Shopping for digital cameras? Visit the buying guide for a look at new and popular models. Don't miss the SimCam, a great way to learn about exposure. Enjoy your visit and remember: take more pictures!

Transparency can be both empowering and inhibiting. Ask some of my students who try to make excuses for work not being done. Since my classes are fully digital, the Internet catches these folks every time...date stamping, digital attendance notes, permanent links. Plausible deniability just doesn't cut it. Because of this, youth need to learn a whole new accountability. Fortunately, many of my students are stepping up...and they're going places with this whole new mindset.

Great videos for teachers and students on digital citizenship (cable in the classroom)

Companion website to tv special " Digital TV: A Cringely Crash Coursecontaining in-depth information about TV and HDTV the advantages differences between analog television.

Momentum is building in the support for the electronic portfolio as a valuable digitally-based tool for learners, instructors, and academic organizations. These may be produced in various digital environments such as web-based applications like wikis or in the form of a web-page driven CD/DVD-ROM.

They covered everything I've been researching for my documentary I'm producing while off work for the year I'm going to have to find a new angle.

Great webcast on what kids learn with Digital Media. This is from a Nov 2009 panel put on by the MacArthur Foundation in Philly.

If you're a digital storyteller or podcaster, you know the value of having sound clips in the middle of your creation.

Here's the link again to the shared Google Doc of resources for any Comm Tech teachers to view and add to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRXzqrIEIyNDiOFxqklmNxESVg814-OqL9c85UVFoSI/edit

"Photoshop has completely revolutionized our visual culture. Artists now use Photoshop to create complex imagery that would have been impossible 20 years ago. It has also profoundly changed the art of photo retouching, turning a labor intensive process into an artful and often controversial digital workflow."

Transmedia storytelling is a game changer for Communications Technology. Here's a Scoop.it page to keep an eye on.

Could use digital citizenship peppered throughout

So I've been watching Ben Rimes' posts for DS106 go by and I keep thinking I should give that a try. I was inspired by the Return to the Silent Era assignment, so after watching a couple other people's submissions I figured I'd jump in. One of the things keeping from trying any ds106 assignment before was a lack of expensive software. Ben always uses high end programs like Adobe Premier and Photoshop that I don't have. How could I possibly do any of the cool stuff he does. Well, I decided to see if I could do the whole thing using only my iPad. It also gave me an excuse to buy Avid Studio, an app I've been looking at since it came out. Apps I used: Avid Studio $4.99 - For video editing Blux Movie (free right now) - I shot the movie with Blux. PhotoShop Express and SketchBook Express (free) - To create the placards. I added the text in Avid Studio iSuper8 (free) - Final aging effects added.

I was working a gig in Vegas with a brand new Phantom Flex high speed digital cinema camera. I had to try it out. In fact, I never did go to bed that night. I opened up a wormhole shooting at 2,564 frames per second.